Water-closet seat.



UNITED s'ra'rns MAX H. PAULUS, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO J. C. EICHMAN MFG. 00., 0F BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, A CORPORATION OF MARYLAND.

WATER-CLOSET SEAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 6, 1911.

Patented Nov. 7, 1911.

Serial No. 612,636.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, MAX H. PAULUS, citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tater-Closet Seats, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention has relation to sectionally constructed seats for water closets, and has for its object the provision of a novel form of joint for the connected sections, whereby the latter will remain in perfectly close and permanent connection under all ordinary conditions.

WVooden water -closet seats are usually formed by joining together, at their meeting edges, four sections or blocks of wood, comprising two long outer sections, and two interposed short sections, the sections being secured in position by means of glue, and then cutting the seat to its proper shape and finishing the seat by rounding the edges. The blocks or sections are sometimes correspondingly tongued and grooved or rabbeted to fit together. Owing to shrinkage of the wood and for other reasons, the sections frequently partially or wholly come apart at their meeting edges and produce open and unsightly joints, which cannot be closed and which greatly impair the appearance and comfort of the seat.

My invention, having for its principal object the provision of means for preventing the separation of the sections at their meeting edges, consists in constructing a closet seat of the tongued and grooved sectional type, with interlocking means, hereinafter described and claimed, which, when the sections are adjusted to their proper positions relatively to each other, cannot be separated laterally, and will always maintain perfectly close oints.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating my invention: Figure 1 is a plan view showing the sections, in rough, of a closet seat according to my invention with the short middle sections separated from the outer sections to show the tongues and fas tening projections. Fig. 2 is a section on the line X-X of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a plan view similar to Fig. 1, but with the sections brought together. Fig. A is a plan view of a cut out and finished closet seat formed from the sections shown in other views.

The seat, in the rough, is composed of the two outer sections of wood A, A, of approximately the length of a finished seat on its major axis, and the two short intermediate sections B, B, each approximately one-third the length of the sections A, A.

The sections A, A, are grooved on their inner edges as shown at a, and the sections B, B, are correspondingly tongued on both edges as shown at b, b, the tongues fitting the grooves closely when the sections are joined together. Ordinarily closet seats are provided only with tongued and grooved sections, all the sections being similarly tongued and grooved, or with the middle sect-ion grooved and tongued on opposite edges and one of the outer sections formed with a tongue and the other with a groove on the inner edge. hen the sections are so formed and brought together the usual means of fastening or securing them together is by glue. The sections so fitted and fastened are liable to separate at the joint as well as to shift lengthwise, and under such circumstances the result is an open, unsightly, and very undesirable joint. To prevent such separation or displacement, I construct each of the intermediate sections B, B, with an obliquely projecting 111 D, on each side, about midway between its ends and at corresponding points in the inner edges of the outer sections I form oblique mortises or recesses E, E, to receive the lugs, so that when the lugs are thrust into the mortises a sufficient distance to cause the sections to come close together, the connected sections shall be interlocked together, the lugs engaging as hooks upon and with the mortised sections. The sections A, A, and the lugs are pierced vertically to receive, as additional. securing means, screws or dowel pins. In putting the sections together, a short section is brought up to an outer section a short distance outside the position the short sections will finally reach, and the lug is inserted in its mortise with the edge of the short section slightly oblique to the edge of the long section. By then pressing the short section toward the center of the seat the lug will be lodged home in its mortise and the sections drawn together 1. A water-closet seat composed of four coi'i'iplei'nentary sections constituting outer and intermediate sectlons, the outer sections being formed wlth reversely angled mortises oblique to their ends, and the intermediate sections formed With corresponding rerersely angled projections oblique to their ends, said projections being made integral with said intermediate sections and adapted to fit tightly in said mortises, and to interlock the connected. sections together.

2. A water-closet seat composed of curved complementary outer and intermediate sectheir ends, and the intermediate sections formed with a tongue on each end to fit the grooves of the adjacent sections, and also formed on each end with an oblique projection integral with the tongue and fitting ti-ghtly into the mortise of the adjacent outer section.

In testimony whereof I my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MAX. H. PAULUS.

\Vitnesses JULIUS C. EICHMAN, HERMAN RAI-IE.

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